by > [ Error on read from talk daemon: Connection refused ]
> I can't seem to get the talk daemon to function correctly, and I'm not
> sure where to start troubleshooting.
> Situation:
> linux newbie
> Redhat 6.2 on a 486/32 meg ram
> running headless
> Doesn't seem to be a user issue, even as the problem occurs even as su.
> The talk daemon is active according to linuxconf. Any ideas/help would
> be greatly appreciated.
> ...Spot
command:
mesg y
that turns on messages so that talk can display messages to the user...u
may have to do the same thing to the person who is trying to initiate a
talk session as well (root by default as mesg set to n (for no messages
allowed)